Tactical Urbanism is a kind of urbanism that usually focuses on small scale urban improvements in the efforts to test new concepts before making final substantial changes. Compared to other branches of urbanism, it has five characteristics: planned and phased approach; local solutions; short-term commitment and realistic expectations; low-risks with a possibly high reward; and the control of social capital.
The implementing short-term, low-budget projects of Tactical Urbanism usually take the form of re-discovering and reusing lost urban spaces by turning those spaces into temporary public use,such as turning the surplus parking into resting places. A lot of these practices focus on the street and block scale, aiming to promote livable streets and neighborhood vitality. And in most cases, the leaders of these bottom-up tactics are local advocates, local businesses, non-profits or community groups. To sum up, I think Tactical Urbanism, as a more flexible, community-engaged short-term renovation strategy, can definitely be applied globally but only as the complement of other main stream of urbanism.
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